1st Edition
In Pursuit of Epistemic Healing in South African Universities Black Students’ Encounters with the Structural and Spiritual Violence of Coloniality in Higher Education
Introduction: Iqhayiya nebhongo lam
Prelude to Chapter One: Ukuphambana
1. Myths-education and Coloniality
Prelude to Chapter Two: A prayer for ease in the bloodline
2. Current challenges in higher education
Prelude to Chapter Three: A freedom chant
3. The decolonial difference
Prelude to Chapter Four: An academia that breathes
4. A theory that offends and interrupts
Prelude to Chapter Five: A Cultural Song
5. Black students’ experiences in basic education
Prelude to Chapter Six: Silver faucets
6. Basic Education in South Africa
Prelude to Chapter Seven: Black Saints
7. Intersectional Experiences of Black students in Higher Education
Prelude to Chapter Eight: White psychology, Black indecipherability and iThongo
8. Examining Spiritual violence and Epistemic Healing in universities
Prelude to Chapter Nine: A landscape in mourning for me
9. To Burn or not to burn the colonial university?
Biography
Wanelisa Xaba is a queer activist, decolonial feminist researcher and storyteller passionate about decolonial Black futures. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Over the past ten years, Dr. Xaba has combined teaching, research, and social activism to advance education justice, Black feminism, and LGBTIQ+ rights in South Africa. She has lectured in undergraduate and postgraduate studies on LGBTIQ+ rights, queer theories, African feminism, post-colonial theories, decolonial theories, and education. She is a fierce advocate for her ancestors.
